Everybody here so busy talking about how much they hate L&P's preview policy (which is admittedly unusual)...
Why the heck is nobody talking about story?
I don't know about anyone else but that's the thing that keeps me coming back to this game.
The magazine cover is hella' interesting, it's more risqué than I would expect from Sophia and the cover text does point to even sexier pictures inside - given the assumption that the magazine (and presumably the photo-shoot behind it) comes from a discussion about how she lost her virginity.
Was Sophia's first time with some older photographer guy who took advantage of her? It could definitely inform her somewhat frigid nature when we meet her at the start of the game.
Liam's gambling problem was first mentioned on Day One, just to setup the Morello storyline coming later.
You know what else was mentioned early on? Sophia forbidding Ellie from taking any kind of modelling work until she's finished her schooling, we may soon (in like 7 weeks) find out that Sophia made that judgement from personal experience.
On top of that - this sets up a much different picture to how I had been imagining Sophia's 'First-Time' story turning out.
I had assumed it would be a high-school fling in her teenage bedroom; parents away, invites the cool guy from class over to 'study', he's charming and respectful at first then turns coercive and mean when she starts backing out (like a late 90's/early-2000's version of Aiden) and that becomes the negative formative experience that sets her up to become the somewhat frigid woman we meet later.
Anyone else wanna offer some speculation about what story progression we'll see in this update?
